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Wisconsin Historical Society ___Frederick Jackson Turner___. The Significance of the Frontier in American History 1893. A paper read at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, 12 July 1893, during the World Columbian Exposition*. ____Excerpts____. Frederick Jackson Turner * *. I n a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports. This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West.
have in addition to this a recurrence of the process of evolution in each western area reached in the process of expansion. Thus American development has exhibited not merely advance along a single
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